Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

I b’lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I’ve got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit – what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a….turkey….in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.